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...he greatness and importance of its merchants and manufac turers; upon its inventions, which are constantly in progress; upon the skill and intelligen... ...t spirits displayed extraordinary aptitude in the acquisition, even in the invention, of mili tary tactics, in the combining and commanding of great ... ... in every study and in every pur suit is the quality of attention. My own invention or imagi nation, such as it is, I can most truthfully assure yo... ...My vestry even took upon itself to deny the existence of cholera as a weak invention of the enemy, and that denial had little or no ef fect in stayin...

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...e and expression were what we had in view, we excluded all considerations of invention by agree ing that the task should be a version of the eighteen... ...th me on such occasions, viz., That, as we enjoy great advan tages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others... ...ntions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously. The Autob... ...fortune by it. And this is not the only instance of patents taken out for my inventions by others, tho’ not always with the same success, which I neve...

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... inventor whose breakthroughs in technology (especially transport technology) drive the plots of the novels, placing them in a genre sometimes called invention fiction or Edisonade. This book is the 20th in the original series published from 1910 -1942, written by a ghost writer using the name of Victor Appleton. This adventure takes Tom and his cohorts to Honduras in sear...

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...ds of state and narrowly escaping disaster at the hands of “primitive” cannibals, Turks and Tatars, pirates, and evil scientists who try to steal his inventions. It's great fun, despite the occasional use of racial stereotypes that reflect the values of its time....

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... of his professional labours that all my father’s scientific inquiries and inventions centred; *In Dr. Murray’s admirable new dictionary, I have remar... ...rticularly to Thomas Stevenson from the great number and importance of his inventions: 61 Memories and Portraits holding as the Stevensons did a Gove... ...tells, or tries to tell, himself a story, as the feeblest of children uses invention in his play; and even as the imaginative grown person, joining in... ... Shet- land mistress – is conceived in the very highest manner of romantic invention. The words of his song, “Through groves of palm,” sung in such a ... ...sentation of certain incidents out of a great number that offered, and the invention (yes, in- vention) and preservation of a certain key in dialogue.... ...- a-faire passes unseen behind the panels of a locked door. The delectable invention of the young visitor is introduced, consciously or not, to this e...

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...dn't have undertaken the task as she has." 93 "I take it Alex is Nelson’s invention?" "Alex is a detailed replica of his daughter Alexandra." "What h... ... exposed. She sensed the Techtronic scanning her. "So, this is your latest invention." Alex aired confidence, though not impressed with the one she k...

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...Introduction A Day to Remember A Century of Inventions Newcastle’s Call The Steam Elephant The Battle against Creep The Deluge The Slaughterhouse The Jarrow Gibbet The Secret Diary An Arranged Marriage Seaham Harbour The Lost Main Line Politics and Personali...

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...te solutions through the use of mathematics, "Om technology", and sharo-logical edutainment as well as creating a multitude of "Harmless but helpful inventions that assist themselves & those that they meet. These heroes make friends where ever they may go while solving many of what some may call "the worlds problems" along the way. This dynamic duo as well as their amazin...

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...ech Siblings-For centuries, the Chinese keep to themselves ?the wasps’ secret? and then develop printing blocks—the precursor to Gutenberg’s wondrous invention. Paper and print nourish China’s awakening, which dazzles Marco Polo. -- 7. Islam‘s Great Gifts to the West-One precept of the Koran states that the human world’s quest for knowledge leads to further knowing of Alla...

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...t‖ and then develop printing blocks—the precursor to Gutenberg’s wondrous invention. Paper and print nourish China’s awakening, which dazzles Marco ... ...the rise of democracies. 13. He Unchained Books The German goldsmith’s invention frees access to library books and breaks the chains of ignorance... ...mar Mergenthaler found a way in the late 1880s to mechanize that historic invention. Then, less than a century later – in the 1980s – digital print... ...he 1930s when a junior high print shop class introduced me to Gutenberg‘s invention. There, the ―pick and click‖ of the type in the stick immediatel... ... Demand Analysis To Abe Lincoln, the alphabet was ―the world‘s greatest invention.‖ What made the switch from pictographic writing‘s shape symbol... ... a million years, including the first four thousand years after writing‘s invention. In addition to clay, papyrus, and parchment, other writing surf... ...dition to clay, papyrus, and parchment, other writing surfaces before the invention of paper included leaves from palm and olive trees and the bark ... ...ns as the oldest written language in continuous use since the time of its invention. Royal Chinese priests, according to the Oriental Institute‘s... ...ly simple that anyone can recreate it at home.) T‘sai Lun recorded his invention in 105 AD. Chinese appear to have first used coarsely woven cl...

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...e important when we come to the world of ideas, information, expression, and invention. We want a lot of material to be in the public domain, material... ...ourishing economy—and not just in literature or film. You want innovation and invention. You want drugs that cure terrible diseases, 1 37278_u01.qxd 8... ...ellectual property. The state will create a right to exclude others from the invention or the expression and confer it on the inventor or the author. ... ...a little later.) Having been given the ability to forbid people to copy your invention or your novel, you can make them pay for the privilege of getti... ...vided by the legal right to exclude—by the legal monopoly over the resulting invention. The market hints at some unmet need—for drugs that might reduc... ...imited right to exclude other people from my original expression or my novel invention. Why create such a right and back it with the force of law? Acc... ...innovation policy in which the right to exclude others from novel and useful inventions creates a cybernetic and responsive innova- tion marketplace. ... ... Evans’s elevators. Patents then, as now, were only supposed to be given for inventions that were novel, nonobvious, and useful. Jefferson had conside... ...ly a revolving string of buckets used to move grain, actually counted as “an invention.” “The question then whether such a string of buckets was inven...

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...d of growth; the latter constitute growing. Active habits involve thought, invention, and initiative in applying capacities to new aims. They are oppo... ...esent time undergoes rapid and abrupt changes through the evolution of new inventions. New industries spring up, and old ones are revolutionized. Cons... ...ance, science made only slow and accidental advance. Systematic advance in invention and discovery began when men recognized that they could utilize d... ...arify, and locate the question; they cannot supply its answer. Projection, invention, ingenuity, devising come in for that purpose. The data arouse su... ...xt. The same is true of every striking scientific discov- ery, every great invention, every admirable artistic pro- duction. Only silly folk identify ... ... selec- tion, formulation, and organization, no definite limit exists. The invention of writing and of printing gives the operation an immense impetus... ...ry. The extension in modern times of the area of intercommuni- cation; the invention of appliances for securing acquain- tance with remote parts of th... ... The differences of civilization in cold and tropical regions, the special inventions, industrial and political, of peoples in the temperate regions, ... ...ption of the long road which has had to be traveled, and of the successive inventions by which the race has been brought forward in culture. We do not...

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...THE GREATEST FUNDAMENTAL INVENTIONS CREATED BY MOTHER NATURE THE ATOM AND ITS CAPACITY TO STORE AND RELEASE UNIVERSAL ENERGY BY MEANS OF PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROCESSES THE CELL AND ITS CAPACITY TO SUSTAIN INDEPENDENT LIFE BY MEANS OF UNIQUE B...

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...THE BIRTH OF MODERN BIOLOGY 93 THE RISE OF UNIVERSITIES DURING THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE 93 JOHANN GUTENBERG (1398 - 1468) German Inventor 94 THE INVENTION OF THE PRINTING PRESS THE DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN HUMAN ANATOMY 95 A NEW SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION 95 HUMAN ANATOMY DURING THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE 96 MONDINO De LUZZI (1275 - 1326) Italian Anatomist 96 LEONARDO Da ...

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...tarted complaints. The humans are always rude to the machines they made.” Computer digital voice complained. This mini robot computer is an amazing invention of Dr. Jabran which has been developed and programmed in such a unique way that it counsels him in difficult times like a human and remains busy in talking with him continuously but when its talking becomes over,...

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...order of our world, in terms of NATURAL LAWS and MATHEMATICAL FORMULATIONS with great strength, uniformity and significance. Each new discovery and invention, although modest in itself, always adds to solving, one step at a time, the complex and apparent puzzle of nature. The light from each scientific truth, contributes to the glorious unveiling of the MASTER PLAN th...